“…Was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; and sure he is an honorable man. But were I Brutus‚ and Brutus Antony‚ there were an Antony would ruffle up your spirits‚ and put a tongue in every wound of Caesar that should move the stones of Rome to rise and mutiny… … Here was a Caesar! When comes such another‚” addressed wise Marc Antony to the manipulated Roman citizens. (Foote and Perkins‚ 678 –683). During 509 BC to AD 27‚ Rome was a republic where its citizens elected leaders by voting
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At the age of 9 he met for the first time the eight-year-old Beatrice Portinari‚ who became in effect his Muse‚ and remained‚ after her death in 1290‚ the central inspiration for his major poems. Between 1285‚ when he married and began a family‚ and 1302‚ when he was exiled from Florence‚ he was active in the cultural and civic life of Florence‚ served as a soldier and held several political offices. Summary The Inferno follows the wanderings of the poet Dante as he strays off the rightful and
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QUESTION PAPER CLASS X SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT II ENGLISH COMMUNICATIVE Marking Scheme SECTION – C [GRAMMAR] 20 MARKS Q.1} Marks 4 - Half mark for each correct answer. a) all b) through c) the d) of e) Each f) which g) In h) much Q-2}. Marks 4 - Half mark for each correct answer. a) conquered conquest b) in of c) being are d) those they e) hostile hostility f) seeming seems g) being be h) the a Q-3}. Reported Speech. -1 mark each- 3 marks
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Satan is depicted as a huge‚ hideous dragon-like beast‚ with a shaggy coat of matted hair. The beast has 3 heads‚ each with a set of wings. The 3 colored faces‚ black‚ white‚ and yellow‚ are each gnawing on the body of a traitor that Dante considered the worst: Judas‚ Brutus‚ and Cassius. Described as the “Great Worm
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The Second Triumvirate 43BC-36BC MAIN POINTS: 1. Octavian attempts to secure his inheritance 2. Octavian’s Temporary Collaboration with the republicans 3. Octavian’s first consulship 4. Octavian and Anthony join forces 5. Creation of the Second Triumvirate 6. Formation of a body to run the state 7. Beat the liberators 8. Then‚ divided the empire‚ Anthony the West and Octavian the East 9. However‚ tensions quickly arising Octavian attempts to secure
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records of a speech we are unsure what the speech said. 2) Brutus’s emotional connection to Caesar in the play is noted‚ but not really showed in the lines. Plutarch explains how Sevillia was Caesar’s love and how Brutus and Caesar had a father and son relationship in both the lives of Brutus and the Lives of Julius Caesar 3)The omens in Calpurinia’s dream. Shakespeare read in Plutarch that there were omens predicting the death of Caesar before the Ides‚ but like the speech‚ we are unsure what these
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while living on earth. In Dante’s view torture is godly justice. In Canto IX the sinners are the heretics. Canto XI contains the sinners that have committed really bad fraudulent acts. Canto XXXIV contains the souls of the most evil sinners‚ the traitors to their benefactors. Throughout Dante’s writing symbols are used to represent the will of God and the punishments for the sinners were a reflection of the sin that they committed against God. Dante’s travels take you through different levels of
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sins. There are people suffering in the cores of Hell due to lust‚ adultery‚ suicide‚ gluttony‚ greed‚ etc. Souls suffer as they grieve their contrapasso punishment for the atrocities they have done while in their bodies on Earth. They have been traitors to the word of God and now they are destined to spend their eternities in Hell where they constantly remember the sins they have caused against the bible‚ Christ and God. Though there are the souls in Limbo that suffer from never knowing the word
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno Dante Alighieri Major Characters • Dante Alighieri o Thirty-five years old at the beginning of the journey ( half of man’s biblical life span “threescore and ten years” (Psalm 90:10) o Lost his way on “the true path” of life ( sin has obstructed his path to God o Explores the nature of sin by traveling through hell o Rooted in the Everyman allegorical tradition ( represents humanity o Little known about his life
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Dante’s Inferno is a story about how two men and their travels through hell‚ the different levels of hell‚ who was in them‚ and what they did during their time on Earth. There were nine circles and some of them had different levels inside the circles for example the seventh circle of hell is divided between three smaller circles. Then they eventually emerge back out onto the earth but on the opposite side of the earth from where they had started. The book starts out with Dante wandering through
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